Process of printing numbered bands



lG. 1. MccLosKY. PROCESS 0F PRINTING NUMBERED BANDS. APPLICATION FILED FEB. 4, 1920.

1,341,186. Patented 11117211920.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE J. MQCLOSKY, 0F WASHINGTON, DISTRICT 0F COLUMBIA, ASSIGNOR TO l COLUMBIAN PRINTING COMPANY, INC., OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT' OF COLUMBIA, A CORPORATION OF THE DISTRICT 0F COLUMBIA.

PROCESS OF PRINTING NUMBERED BANDS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 25, 1920.

To all whom t'may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE J. MGCLosKY, a -citizen of the United States, residing at Washington, in the District of Columbia, have invented new and useful Improvements in Processes of Printing Numbered Bands, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in the process of printing numbered bands, and pertains particularly to the printing oi bands intended to be used in banding packages of numbered labels, tickets, transfers, and the like, and to furnish information as to the numbers included in each package.

An object of my invention is to provide a process or method by which bands for use in banding packages of consecutively numbered labels, tickets, transfers, or like slips, or cards, can be conveniently and expeditiously printed to show serially the numbers contained in diiferent packages.

Another object residesin carrying out a process in the accomplishment of which several automatically operated numbering machines can be employed to simultaneously print a plurality of band markings upon a single sheet, which sheet will later be severed into individual bands.

A still further object lies in carrying out the Vprocess in such a manner that as the numbering machines operate the serial numbering upon the bands advances in proper order to give the desired sequence when the printing operation is completed.

With these and other `objects in view, which will be apparent from the specification, drawings, and claims, this invention includes certain novel steps 'and procedure which will now be set forth.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 shows a sheet printed in a form preparatory for the commencement of the printing of the serial numbering.

Fig. 2 illustrates the same sheet following the final printing step and indicates the lines of severance for the individual bands.

Fi 3 is a perspective view, slightly distorte to better disclose the manner of carrying out the final printlng step.

Fig. 4 is a perspective view showmgthe two ends of a printed sheet with the middle torn out to give a clearer notion of the comparative printing thereon.

Fig. 5 shows in perspective a package of labels or the like bound by a band printed in accordance with my process.

Fig. 6 illustrates the last label on the first printed sheet as contained in the series illustrated in Fig. 1.

Fig. 7 shows the top and bottom ends of a sheet with a different serial numbering carried out.

Fig. 8 is a View similar to Fig. 7 illustrate ing the carrying out of still another groupin in the serial numbering.

hile my improved process can be carried out to print bands for many groupings of numbers, I have in the embodiment illustrated in Figs. 1 to 6, shown the division into series of five hundred, and the following description will be read accordingly.

In this adaptation the bands will be numbered from 1 to 500, from 501 to 1000, et seg. Carrying out this same numbering there will be twenty groups from 1 to 10000, and thus twenty bands can be produced with the placing of an additional digit in the ten-thousandths column only as the last figure appears on the last band. Consequently, a second group of bands with this division of numbering can be produced by adding the digit l in the thousandths column and changing the 2 in the last number on the last band. By successively increasing the last number at the left on each group of twenty bands, the series can be carried on indefinitely, it only being necessary to add the necessary ciphers in each instance to the numbers on the second band to carry these nnumbers out to the ten-thousandths column.

With the above in mind I employ, in carrying out my process, a sheet of a width equal to or greater than the length desired for the bands and of a length sufficient t0 cut up into twenty bands. The printed 1natter which is to appear on each of the bands is then set up in twenty duplicates, and with each of these is also set up two numbers, indicating the first and last numbers embraced within one of the groupings of ive hundred. This matter for the individual bands is then assembled and made up with the grouping indicating numbers pref erably running consecutively down a col umn, the space between each grouping being maintained sufficient to permit trimming of the bands. In setting up, the numbers for the first band will be made to read from 0001 to 0500, for the second band, from 501 to 1000; and, on the last band, from 9501 to 0000, the Vintervening groupings being carried through serially; all substantially as shown in Fig. 1. In some cases it may be found desirable to use cuts or slugs, and again where the numbers are toappear in one color of ink and the reading matter of the bands is to be in a contrasting color or in black it will be necessary to assemble the numbers into one formand the reading matter into another.

This matter is then printed in duplicate on a number of sheets, so that each will appear substantially as shown in Fig. 1. One of these sheets will be the first in a series. VThis first sheet of the series is complete with the exception of the last number on the last band, and this is completed by the printing of the digit l in the thousandths column so that the numbers will show a proper sequence, as illustrated in Fig. 6. i,

The next step in the accomplishment of my process is the printing of numbers in the ten-thousandths and higher columns to carry on the sequence of numbering, and Vthis step may be accomplished substantially as indicated in Fig. 3, by the employment of numbering machines printing upon the printed. sheets with the numbers in registry with and in the same color as the numbers appearing on the sheets as originally duplicated. It has been found that this step is well accomplished by making up a plurality of numbering machines in a printing press and setting the machines to each commence printing at 1, with the excep. tion of that machine which will print adjacent the four ciphers appearing at the bottom of the printed sheet, this machine being set at 2. VThe numbering machines are connected to be simultaneously ad vanced one number for each impression printed, and as the printed sheets are fed to the press the numbering machines will print upon the first sheet so that the finished impression appears substantially as in Fig. 2. Referring to Fig. 3, it will be'noted that the numbering machines at 1 are so placed that in each instance numbers printed thereby will be at the left of the numbers 2 on the i printed sheets. It will be appreciated that ticular or' peculiar operating conditions.

lilith the numbering machines ad 'ancing one complete unit and the machine printing at the bottom of the sheets always carrying one in advance of the remaining nnuzhines, the serial numbers may be carried on prac tically indefinitely as far as is desired, or up to the limit of the numbering machines. In Fig. el I have shown the top and bottom ends of one of the completed sheets of higher serial numbering, and it will be observed that the right hand ligure of the last number is carried one in advance of the remaining numbers, this same ratio of adrance being maintained throughout the eon tinuance of the step of printing on the du plicated sheets. When the printing` operation has been carried on to include the last serial number required, the sheets are. evened up, by jogging or otherwise, and are cut successively on the lines :5 3 to sever the individual bands which will. then appear substantially as at +lin Figs. 5 and .\.s illustrated in Fig. 5. the bands can be used in confining a bunch of numbered labels, tickets, or the like, as shown at n, by being wrapped around the bunch and pasted or otherwise secured at its ends as :it (l, and the numbers of the labels or tickets included in the package will be presented in clear View on the band, the figures, made b v the. first and second numbering imprints, appearing on the finished band substanitially as a single imprint.

In Fig. 7 I have illustrated the embodiment of a different grouping of numbers in which the figures on the duplicated printed sheets are carried only into the tens column` the advance in the serial numbering being .in groups of ten, and it will be apparent that by printing in the hundreds and higher columns at the left hand of the duplicated numbers with the subsequently printed ligures increasing one unit with each impression this series can be carried on indelinitely.

Another serial grouping is snown in Fig. 8, the groups here being in units el two hundred, and by a comparison with the showing in Figs. 1 and 2 it will he seen that by carrying out the numbering in the manner previously described the figures and the serial grouping can be followed out to the limits of the highest iuin'iber of labels or the like to be banded. Iln this showing and in the grouping illustrated in Fig. 'i' it will be appreciated that the sheet of paper will be of proper length to embrace all ol the required bands between the limits flisclosed.

From the foregoing it will be seen that I have provided a process or method by which4 bands for use in banding packages of consecutively numbered labels, tickets, transfers, or like slips or cards, can be expcditiously printed to show serially the numbers included in packages to be bound by the individual bands, and it will be appreciated that after the sheets are cut to form the separate bands these may be readily assembled to have the numbers thereon run consecutively or that by taking in rotation from the different bunches of' bands into Which the sheets are cut a proper serial sequence of the bands as applied to the packages will be obtained.

While, in the foregoing, I have illustrated printed matter of set form on each of the bands and have particularly described only certain serial groupings, it will be appreciated that these adaptations are included only as illustrating the accomplishment of my improved process, and that changes without limit can be resorted to in this respect. Likewise, other mechanisms and varied sequence of steps might be employed in carry ing out my process in view of which I Wish to be limited only to such points as are included in the claims.

I claim:

1. The process of printing numbered bands serially numbered, which consists in printingr in duplicate upon sheets of sufficient size to cut up into a number of bands figures starting with any number and advancing in the desired series to show a serial number on each band when cut, and subsequently printing on said sheets at the left hand of the figures thereon other figures commencing with any number and advancing With each sheet printed.

2. The process of printing numbered bands which consists in printing in duplicate upon sheets of suflicient size to cut up into a number of bands figures starting with l and advancing serially to shoeY upon each of the bands when cut, and subsequently printing on said sheets at the left hand of the figures thereon other figures commencing With l and advancing one unit With each sheet printed.

3. The process of printing numbered bands which consists in printing sheets of a size to cut up into a predetermined number of bands in duplicate with figures spaced to show upon the individual bands when cut and running numerically from l to the highest figure for the predetermined nulnber of bands, and subsequently printing upon said sheets figures at the left of and in registry With the duplicated figures Which last printed figures commence With l and increase by one unit with each printing impression.

4. The process of printing numbered bands which consists in printing in duplicate upon sheets to cut up into a plurality of bands 10W and high figures commencing With l and advancing serially to designate predetermined groupings for which the bands are intended, the sheets being of sufficient size to form a number of bands to carry throughout the limit of figures embraced in the units and tens columns and the like necessary to express the predetermined serial grouping and Aending on the space of the .last band with a line of ciphers occupying all of said columns, and subsequently printing said sheets commencing With the figure 2 at the left of the line of ciphers and the numeral l at the left of each of the remaining figures and advancing said subsequently orinted figure and numerals one unit for each sheet printed.

5. The process of printing numbered bands which consists in printing in duplicate upon sheets to cut up into a plurality of bands loW and high figures commencing'vvith l and advancing serially to designate predetermined groupings for which the bands are intended, the sheets being of sufiicient size to form a number of bands to carry throughout the limit of figures embraced in the units and tens columns and the like necessary to express the predetermined serial grouping,

and ending on the space of the last band with a line of ciphers occupying all of said columns, printing a numeral l upon one of said sheets at the left and in registry with said ciphers, and subsequently printing other of said duplicated sheets commencing with the figure 2 at the left of the line of ciphers and the numeral l at the left of each of the remaining figures and advancing said subsequently printed figure and numerals one unit for each sheet printed.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

GEO. J. MCCLOSKY. 

